“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] “Programmed” genetic activity can be altered by conditions in the environment.

(Long pause.) I am not simply saying that genetic activity can be changed, for example, through something like a nuclear accident, but that highly beneficial alterations can also take place in genetic behavior, as in your terms the genetic structure not only prepares the species for any contingency, but also prepares it by triggering those characteristics and abilities that are needed by the species at any given time, and also by making allowances for such future developments (all quite forcefully).

That small alteration, however, immediately altered the legs’ position, however minutely, placing new challenge upon the entire leg and foot region. [...]

[...] Making a change in the present of a certain kind will automatically alter all beliefs “across the board,” so to speak. [...]

[...] (Pause.) You create lives for yourselves, changing them as you go along, as a writer might change a book, altering the circumstances, changing the plots. [...]

[...] He sees, for example, that he is also liked as a person who has certain abilities, and this is beginning to alter his beliefs about himself.

Another point: the meetings in question alter probabilities, and again in a way that in your terms was hardly possible before, for the world looks on, so to speak. [...]

(After supper Jane began to show signs of going into an altered state of consciousness. [...]

(Her very pleasant altered state continued at break, as though she had rejoined it. [...]

[...] In the same manner do the activities of the physical universe alter the dream system. [...]

[...] I mentioned that value fulfillment seems, and is to some small degree, dependent upon time as you know it, but this merely reflects upon the manner in which you perceive time, and in no way alters the simultaneous nature of value fulfillment, which grows in dimension but is not dependent upon time as you know it.

[...] To some extent or another each individual alive alters that climate, so that even if there were no revolutions there would be constant change, sometimes gradual and sometimes sudden.

[...] Ruburt is beginning to yearn for physical mobility, and it will come with that desire and the altered beliefs that make it possible.

Now let us return to Augustus; for here we find again in one individual an excellent example of the way in which seemingly nonphysical thoughts and beliefs can affect and alter the corporeal image. [...]

[...] There were changes in the amount of sugar in the blood and an alteration in the flow of energy throughout the body.

[...] As I have mentioned before, almost all persons pass from a so-called disease state back into healthy states without ever being aware of the alterations. [...]

That is, if you have been born in poor or depressed circumstances, then free will will not alter the conditions of that birth.

[...] This weaving things together to make them “fit” is only natural for one of my temperament, but I didn’t alter any of my original copy—that I’d have refused to do—and I kept intact those first spontaneous descriptions of the events attendant to Jane’s physical difficulties, as well as our deep-seated, sometimes wrenching feelings connected to them. [...]

[...] There should be some alterations however, changes simply to mark the end of one era and the beginning of another, even if it is but a brief vacation, or series of small trips.

[...] We are actually involved in changing a way of life, in altering our very view of the self and the world in the hopes of acquiring a new sense of harmony with our bodies, our minds, our fellow creatures, and the environment.

There was indeed some resulting alteration, literally, in layers of the skin, so that the skin became tougher. [...]

[...] But the seasons are automatic constructions along the lines of alterations, happening to matter already constructed.

[...] The seasons represent indeed a more or less regular inner sweep and rhythm that finds expression through altering what psychic energy has already created.

(She hasn’t undergone a classical religious conversion of the kind William James describes in his The Varieties of Religious Experience,⁴ yet more than once she’s known her own forms of ecstasy, or deep alteration of consciousness, or illumination — whatever one chooses to call such states. [...]

5. Jane deals with her profound alteration of consciousness in Part 2 of Dialogues: “The Paper and Trips Through an Inner Garden,” and in Chapter 9 of Adventures.

[...] It does not control you, for you alter it with each thought and action, even as each motion at the mountain’s top affects its base. [...]

[...] See, for instance, the quotations from the 690th session in Volume l; Seth discussed the ability of our species to precognitively alter the present from the future. [...]

(Very long pause at 3:14.) Doctors should be extremely cautious in the prescription of mind-altering drugs of any kind, and certainly not encourage their use for people in depressed states. [...]